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DR. H. R. MILL'S “Siege of the South Pole” was published in 1905. It was a scholarly book, full of the author's enthusiasm for the explorers and their work, and with just sufficient of the popular to recommend it to the general as well as to the informed reader. Many regard it as the best book on the Antarctic, and it is certainly among the first half-dozen, occupying an honoured place with the travel narratives themselves; with Scott's “Voyage of the Discovery”, Shackleton's “Heart of the Antarctic”, and Shackleton's “South”.
The Conquest of the South Pole: Antarctic Exploration 1906–1931.
By J. Gordon Hayes. Pp. 318 + 24 plates. (London: Thornton Butterworth, Ltd., 1932.) 18s. net.
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WORDIE, J. The Conquest of the South Pole: Antarctic Exploration 1906–1931 . Nature 130, 945 (1932). https://doi.org/10.1038/130945a0
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